Roger Goodell Says NFL Looking to put Teams in Los Angeles & London

I mean I get wanting to put a team in Los Angeles but London? There’s a city due north called Toronto that would love to get in on the action but I guess the English have shown more interest in the sport…

“It doesn’t matter,” Goodell said. “I’d love to be back in Los Angeles, but it has to be done the right way, we have to do it successfully. …

“I want both [cities], but it doesn’t matter which one is first.”

A few weeks ago Goodell suggested that placing a full-time team in London wasn’t in the league’s plans but he seems to have changed his tune a bit.

“[Y]ou could view it as a potential home city but a lot would have to happen before that could take place,” Goodell said.

New England Patriots and Dallas Cowboys owners Robert Kraft and Jerry Jones, are supporters of the idea of a foreign-based team with the latter stating recently that a team in London would bring some added excitement to the league.

“The look-see [in London] is to see if a segment of people in Britain can make it their team. In other words, can they buy into NFL and can they buy into the pride and support a franchise?” Jones said on Dallas’ 105.3 The Fan, via CBS DFW. “London could be an expansion for the NFL. I like the idea. It adds a lot of ‘wow’ to the NFL.”

Everybody in Los Angeles knows that a NFL team ain’t coming to that city until a multi-billion dollar state of the art stadium is built first. That is the reason why both the Raiders and Rams left 18 years ago. Goodell and the owners could care less about L.A. They want London!